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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-05-27 22:14:15
I’ve been mostly using a 9600 running 9.2.2 for a few older games. Quite often when it came to a save or a reload, I’d have an annoying wait while the drive spun up.
I had a generic ATA to CF adapter kicking around so I thought I’d see about using it. I tried connecting it as a second drive on the PC133 card but the system would freeze during bootup. Didn’t have any luck adding it to any of the SCSI to ATA adapters I have. Either it'd freeze or wouldn't be recognized. I had some PC100 cards so I put the adapter on it’s own card and it worked like a charm. Copied the whole boot drive over to it. It was a little faster booting than the 80gb on the pc133 card but not hugely. Still, no extra noise and no spin up time.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2012-05-28 09:09:59
Very interesting. Did you have to do anything special to format it?
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-05-28 11:59:03
No, just used the Apple utilities
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Posted by: beachycove on 2012-05-28 12:48:38
Was if formatted as a scsi drive, as required by some of the pci cards?
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-05-28 13:01:13
Drives on my PC100 cards show up as SCSI. At least in OS 9 and earlier. I don't think I've tried one with OSX
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Posted by: Byrd on 2012-05-28 16:28:00
Would you mind posting a link of the generic PCI CF card that you used? Thanks.
A silent, cheap and fast-ish solid state drive would be handy in many Macs with a spare PCI slot.
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-05-28 21:26:13
I bought it last fall locally. The card doesn't have a name on it but this is the card and the place I bought it from.
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=33463&vpn=SD-CF-IDE-A&manufacture=Syba
There's a place for a 44 pin connector but it's not present
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Posted by: MacJunky on 2012-05-28 21:38:46
I have two of that model, they work for my desktop uses and have never caused issues. Got one in my 286 at the moment. 😛
BTW, what ATA100 and ATA133 PCI cards are you using?
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-05-28 21:58:04
They're both Sonnet cards.
A while back I used to get a lot of free Macs from a local shop. Actually truckloads. These cards and a lot of others were in those machines. Unfortunately I pretty much lost touch with the shop. These miserable little kids decided that they needed most of my spare time. I wasn't smart enough to run away, now I'm trapped.
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-06-02 08:23:33
Tried the CF adapter on the Sonnet ATA 133 card and couldn’t get the 9600 to boot. So I decided to remove the ATA 133 card and try the ATA 100 card with CF in slot one. It did boot slightly faster there. Since I have boot times, with the same 9.2.2 system copied over to all the drives.
18gb on the built-in SCSI boots in 115 sec
80gb on Sonnet ATA 133 in slot 1 boots in 94 sec
4gb CF on Sonnet ATA 100 in slot 1 boots in 83 sec
Currently has 400mhz G3 with maxed out RAM
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